Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-28
A NEW LEAGUE PROPOSED,
A Project to Combine the Best Cities Il
the Western and Northwestern.
OMAHA DEFEATS THE DeNveRs,
other Games in the Western Leagu(
base Ball, the Races and
Other Sports at
All Points.
A Now League.

All Points.
A New League.
KANSAS CITY. Mo-, August 27.-lSpecid
Telegram to the Bee Some six weeks ago
q movement was quietly inaugurated by Sec
retary f. Z. Menges, of the Kansas City
base ball club, looking to the formation Of
new and powerful base ball organization.
This grew out of dissatisfaction with tha
constantly shaky condition of the Western
league and the generally weak condition OF
majority Of the clubs that have visited here
this season. Kansas City's experience in
the western league has been far from satls-
factory to the base ball public. which has
shown itself amply capable of supporting Z
club in a tirst-class organization, and which
demands better ball playing than can be put
up by clubs with the fnan
| cal backing the majority OF the
Western league mines have. The whole trOu-
| bic in the Western league has been that tho
smaller towns cannot support losing teams
| and the natural consequence has been that
| unless their clubs are well up to the top talk
| Of dsbandment is at once INDUCED in. This
| Is shown in the cases Of Leavenworth and
| ST. Joseph. The former could not even keep
| up winning team, while st. Joseph, which
| had previously supported Il club Of pennaDt
|
tves OH the di amond met a series of defeats
| In order to preserve an eight-club Organiza
| tion and thus prevent general demOraliza
ton in the schedule, couple of dune
iii a'' the ns' vacancies. Even now
it is not a certainty that there will be eight
clubs in the Western league when the season
ends. With the end in view of placing kanT
| sas City in league next season in whcn
the clubs will be financially on an equal with
| nd IN a
correspondence with the representatives OF
clubs, in some of the leading cities In the
Northwestern and Western Leagues. Ing
members of the two organizations was re-
ceved with general favor. Mr.: Menges
found one of the strongest friends of the
sago Nationa! leasue, team who Is ,Aa,o.: A: q:
at once said Chicago could be counted in thu
scheme. This, does not mean that the
National leagues champion will be member
but another and distant club In which MIR:
Spaulding and Mr.. Morton will be the princi'
pal stockholders. The former would not 90,
ject to q second club in Chicago, As 1t would
not be likely to hurt the other club and a rich
harvest would be reaped from Sunday games
and other privileges which are not permitted
| in National league cities. The cities which
will 20 to make up the new organizations
and which have already siinied a willing
ness to come in are Kansas CITY, Chicago, l1LaSo,
OF the Lincolns, is desirous of having his
town represented, and the choice for the
svnh soaa and emPsI ST. Loss si %tS chances s
slightly in favor of Lincoln, from the
fact that club in st. Louis in opposition to
the Browns would not be likely TO pay. A
will convince people familiar with base ball
matters that there is not single city In 1t
that is not capable of keeping up losing
club. Moreover, every city can support a
first class club and with such financial back
ing the standard of playing would be greatly
elevated; the new organization VIII doubt
leagues next season, although 1t Is possible
that they may organize with six clubs The
new organization viii lie! effect either league
his season as the cities represented VIZ; sa:
ing VIII be held at the close
spoken of will be represented and the proper
, steps taken for the organization OF the new
league. Secretary Menges said tonight;
when we were dropped from the National
league last spring, firmly resolved never to
ask for admission again: Kansas City is 700 700
eastern clubs cannot be blamed for objection
a to our admission. did think OF trying to
get into the American association next sea-
, son. but when the idea of the new Organiza-
} tion met with such favor felt 1t would be
. better to go into 1t. IT viii be strong asso-
ton, and will undoubtedly be next to the
= = American association as an organization.
! We will begin at the close OF this season to
i secure team for next year, and expect to
a have our players signed by spring. cannot
4 | state the persOnel of the nine ut present, hut
: we have several good players in view. We
4 will make 1t a point to secure young and ann
bilious players. and hope in this way to build
u up strong club"
|. Omaha D, Denver 4.
0 DENVER, August ~ Especial Telegram 10
9 the BEE. l-Bartson won to-day's game for
4 Omaha by his effective pitching. Phillips,
: Tebeau or McSorley could have won the
game for Denver had they been able to hit
Bartson when men were on bases. Omaha
! played great fielding game alsO Walsh cs-
= pecally making good plays Fitzsimm ons
:. seemed to have all idea that he had snap at
g the start, but after Omaha made live runs in
u the first inning he got over it and pitched a
9 good game Krehmeyer and Dwyer made
= | five double plays, as did Briggs and Nc Sor-
d ley. liagan's umpiring was the worst he las
o done since coming here, and the bleaching
y boards gave him reminder throughout tie
+. game. Two games will be played tomorrow.
II one in the morning, the other in the after
II noon. The attendance to-day was about 400
v TIE SCORE
d DENVER POS AIS. II. lB. 20. A. T.
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